Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-08-25

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belief or coneeit of my fitness for the
work. / am unworthy to present this
as would like to do. | feel that the
audiance before me is an important
audience. | know there are many
| teachers before me and feel some en-
barrassment because they may criticise;
hut know the great influence of teach
| ers over children. think the influence
Of the teacher next to the influence OF
the mother. So say this is an import
ant audience and urge the Importance
of the position of teachers and the i'm
portance of the influence and the duties
of teachers. One who only teaches
children to write and cipher falls short
of her calling. A teacher has the OPP
portunitY and ought to have the power
to impress in the minds of children right
ideas and principles that they will never
forget. Lessons of youth are most last
ing. Lessons taught the children in
temperance and moral questions are the
most important lessons they get.
am a representive Good Templar
Our order works among the young;
but think that the organization ought
not to be left to the young. Many say,
eve wentto Sunday School when we were
young, but have outgrown it now"
Older people ought not to leave schools
to the young. The responsibilities of
some parents seems only to reach over
their children's food, clothes and vac
cination; the rest they leave to hired
| teachers. 1t is too much the same in
the Good Templar work. Too many
think that they have outgrown it. We
want you there to influence for good.
Good Templars is young peoples So
ciety; it is the only temperance organi-
cation that extends its hand to the young
and we ought to encourage it and sup
port it.
A scripture lesson IS impressed on my
mind, a lesson of charity, Luke X, 25,
about certain lawyer who stood up
before Christ and tempted him, saying,
Master, what shall do to inherit eternal
lifeP Christ answered, what is written
in the lawP How readest thou? The
young man repeated the law of love to
God; land thy neighbor as myself"
Christ said, "Thou hast answered right
this do and thou shalt live" But the
Young man said, "and who is my
nelghbor?" Just here selfishness creeps
into every one Of us. In sickness we
want many neighbors; this past, we
don't want many neighbors. We offer
prayers for the Lord to bless our neigh
bors, but if their blessings were to de-
pend on our own doing we should wish
the much less. A certain kind of people
pray like the man who said, "4od bless
me and my wife; God bless my son
John; God bless my son Johns wife:
bless us four and no more" When
God sends plenty to us we hold on to it
and ask the Lord to send more for the
poor. When you pray for God to cloth
the naked, just rumage your clothes
chests and clothe t naked with what
you laid away. Jesus's answer to the
young man explained his neighbor by
the story of the young man who after
coming down from Jerusalem to Jericho,
fell among thieves and was robbed and
wounded and left half dead.
How much more is the drunkard
worthy of pity, robbed of clothes, money,
left half dead, and robbed ofmuch more,
his character and chance of heaven.
Law defends, the business; these thieves
1 am after, but they have no need to
run, we protect them according to law.
The thieves | am after are aided by the
makers of the law and aid in the THEY
ing. Look again at the road from
Jerusalem to Jericho; in the parable
three persons pass down the road
Every person in this house belongs to
one of these three classes.
The first was priest who professed
to love God, and if he did he ought to
love his neighbor. He came to where
his neighbor lay What did he do?
What should he do? But he passed by
on the other side and left him and prob
ably prayed to God to save him. Was
that man any better because the priest
passed that way or by his prayer? If
there are any who do their temperance
work in this way by praying to the
Lord,-but not willing to do anything
to prove their principles, let them re-
form. Read your own heart and re-
member God looks ON while you read
Do you belong to the high priests class?
Take your place in class No. |. Don't
take this garment unless it fits. You
may try on each one; several will be
offered
Next comes the Leyite. He represents
class. He went over and looked at
him with words like these. Why you
poor fellow! are you much hurt? | am
so sorry! Too bad. l pity you. am
so sorry. What would you expect him
TO do? Take hold and relieve? But he |
passed by and left him there. l meet
more Levites than any other class.
The country is full of drunkards, and of
drunkards' wives and children. Some
of you are so sorry for all these, but
what are you doing to help all their
distress? These expressions of sorrow,
ETC.. are the beginning and ending Of
your interest in their miseries. Let the |
Leyites take places in class No. ?.